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Immediate bilateral autologous breast reconstruction for silicone intolerance.

Mosahebi A, Atherton D, Ramakrishnan V

St Andrew's Centre for Plastic Surgery, Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, Essex CM1 7ET, UK.

A one step autologous approach to bilaterally correct recurrent complications of breast reconstruction or augmentation with silicone implants is presented together with five cases. This approach resulted in relief of symptoms with good cosmetic outcome avoiding multiple procedures.

Published 4 July 2005 in Br J Plast Surg, 58(5): 714-6.
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